engaged

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of engage

adj

1. (not-comparable)Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
2. (not-comparable)Busy or employed.

   “Dig if you will the picture / Of you and I engaged in a kiss / The sweat of your body covers me / Can you my darling / Can you picture this?”

3. (not-comparable)Greatly interested.
4. (British, not-comparable)(of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.

   “I tried calling, but she (or her phone) was engaged.”

5. (not-comparable)attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
6. (not-comparable)in contact and in operation
7. (not-comparable)being attacked or attacking
8. (not-comparable)Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
9. (not-comparable)Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).

   “Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.”